The Devil's Dolls Page #4

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I'm Detective Williams.

Matt.

Believe me, we wanna find out

why this happened

as bad as you, so...

Is it okay if I ask you

a couple of questions?

You and Conner aren't from here.

Why were you in town?

-School's out.

Driving home to Florida,

Pensacola.

Stopped on our way through.

- School is where?

- Iowa.

-Hawkeyes?

You and Connor ever

take any drugs?

-No. Conner never...

And I'm pregnant.

I mean, I think I am.

That's why Conner,

he went into the store.

- It's okay.

Have some water.

How did Conner

know the store clerk?

-He didn't.

- Trisha, the way

he attacked that man

there had to be

something personal.

-No. Never.

We've never even

been here before.

- Have you ever heard the name

Henry Leonard Bale?

-The serial killer?

- Is it possible Conner

would had contact with him?

-What? No!

Of course, not.

Never.

- Maybe followed the case?

Took a special interest?

-No.

Not at all.

Why?

- Have you ever seen

this symbol before?

-What is that?

What is that?

Oh, my God.

- This officer is gonna take

really good care of you.

- You didn't have

to show her the picture.

-Nope.

- You just wanted

to see her reaction.

-Yeah.

-She doesn't know sh*t.

-Nope.

Where is she?

-They sedated her.

- I don't understand.

The... the dog?

I wanna see her.

-She's in there.

-I should leave.

- Ethan.

- No, he's her father.

- And you're my fiancee.

Stay with me.

- Hello, detective.

I'm Dr. Wells.

- What is this?

- We don't know yet.

- She's an eight-year-old girl

for Christ's sakes.

Did you hear what she did?

-I can't explain that.

-What can you explain?

- The blood we took shows

extremely elevated

stress hormone levels consistent

with an epileptic seizure.

- She's had seizures before.

Nothing like this.

- The nature of seizures

is unpredictable, detective.

Especially in children.

Now, you said she had another

intense episode earlier today?

- Yeah.

- What?

- It was over in a minute.

Like always.

I handled it. She was fine.

You wanna talk about how many

times I've had to handle this

on my own

in the last couple of years?

- Hey. Nobody did

anything wrong.

What's important is that

we're taking care of her now.

-What's next?

- Well, the standard protocols

have failed to lower her pulse

or her blood pressure

as much as I'd like to see.

But she'll level out.

The best thing is to keep her

sedated and let her get a rest.

-Thank you, doctor.

-Ethan.

I can't bring her back

to the house like that.

- No, no, I'll take care of it.

-I am so sorry.

- I'll be back as soon as I can.

It's okay.

-It's okay, baby.

Daddy's here.

-Hey.

It's gonna go great.

They wouldn't have called you

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